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So, you have your men all lined up nicely, and the barbarians are approaching, at 20 yards or so decide it is time to launch your pila and you yell........................what? Seriously, what is the Latin command to shoot or to fire?
Seems to me this was discussed once, maybe even as long ago as the old RAT. I searched, and got too many hits, reset some of the terms in search and still got far too many hits. Oh well, me and search engines don't get along well.
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Damn! Just threw my pen across the room!!
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Thanks Peroni!.........I knew I'd get a quick answer on here.
Sorry to hear about your pen Gaius. Maybe you need to put a large long iron point on it.
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Naaaa, it stuck in the back of a recalcitrant drillers head just fine as is...! :lol:
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Byron,
Good thing it was a pen and not another sharp object or better yet a living one.
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If we try to consider just how 80 or 160 men can all thro' their Pilum at the same time for the shock tactic to work, I do not think there would have been any verbal order at all. What we would have had is 80 guys standing each 2 meters apart with the other 80 in staggered rank behind also 2 meters apart, however they would all be looking to the right watching the senior Centurian. He would wait until he could see the white of the enemy eyes then thro' his Pilum, what more practical situation can you have than this where 160 men all thro' at the same time. That is the true shock tactic and why I say 160 men is that the Roman soldiers worked in Maniples, indeed they even lived in Maniples as barrack blocks in Roman forts show us.
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In my Cohors we use "Mite!" (I´m not zure of the orktographie, I am a iliterrated late roman recruit :lol: )
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The right command is, in my opinion,:
"MITTE!"
(the singular is a peculiarity of the Strategikon commands),
better if with a previous "... PARA..." or "... PARATI...."
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I think we occassionally use Parate too.....IIRC. or something similar.
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